olliebown.bsky.social
Associate Professor, @UNSW Art & Design.
Research: Creative AI, computational creativity, music, interaction design, society, evolution.
Music: Icarus, Tangents, Not Applicable.
Also: Social justice, equity, cycling, urban planning, 18-19C history.
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Human catapult is underrated IMO. Why do we never see them?
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Yeah right, and the black boxes we have ended up with are like "here's your damn music, whatever that's supposed to be, now leave me alone".
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Ooh I love this line though:
"When we have the full realization of nanotechnology-based assembly in the 2020s, we will be creating actual hardware at almost no cost from software."
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Even in 2003, even while discussing copyright and new intelligent music software in the same piece, there's no anticipation of the current AI copyright crisis. Perhaps in other readings? Not a diss. I don't think many people saw it. I didn't.
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Return of the CLIVE?
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I read these applications, think for a minute they're onto something brilliant, then it unravels. Well done you tricked a human (yay, Turing test!). This is AI creating work for people at quite astonishing rates, to the point that talk of AI efficiency gains become seriously cast into doubt.
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John Gray's Straw Dogs is not a book I completely agree with but it should be essential reading even if it was written a while ago with a different cohort in mind.
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Tech optimists have ZERO basis to claim this isn't the future they're creating, as opposed to their naive utopia. Their acceleration might be an acceleration of pain. They have no idea. They just haven't thought it through. Tech billionaires think it launders their conscience just fine though.
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We have super-abundance now but we don't know how to fairly distribute it, nor manage ethnic or political conflict, basic hatred, or out-of-control competitive arms races.
Why would super intelligence or unlimited energy change that? Why would it make people (or super intelligent AI) nice?
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That elite likes to have parties where they utilise vast resources to play galactic snooker with planets, while the rest are made to mine minerals from asteroids to feed unlimited greed, or are just some torture plaything for the emperor's LOLs.
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This thinking is sick in the head.
Pause and consider a possible future where a trillion people inhabit the galaxy utilising incredible technology, except all those vast resources are controlled by an elite of 1000, ruled by an emperor dynasty.
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Not the one but thanks. I focus on music and it's good to have an eye across other fields.
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Yay. Now optimise for e/acc!
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Been running the numbers on WWIII and it ain't pretty.
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Reminded of the UK government's reskilling ad campaign and the responses thereto...
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I'm generally for small transport freedom but I fear for Sydney's already completely lackluster embrace of the bicycle.
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I wanted to take my son to see him in Sydney this Jan but he was too young, and anyway the gig never happened. RIP. Your musical power and cultural diplomacy was second to none.
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I mean, recommendation is not a technically hard thing. It can largely rely on hand selected lists, adapted to a context.
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I still believe I should be able to plug alternative recommenders in to my provider of choice.
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I seem to be an outlier on this. So many people I know don't have good discovery stories with Spotify. I'm constantly discovering stuff I love that's also not mainstream or obvious, and learning about new or old artists. Even since my kids took over my account!!
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It's a fair point. But now back to reality, regulating AI for consumer rights, safety, fairness, risk, just like seatbelts, safety testing cars, medicine, food, can't be dismissed as some special interest group's agenda.